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Congress hears Lehman sought millions for execs

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:54:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: lovely!! Kinda reminds me of 911 when people made money on the market prior to the attack... Something smells fishy!!! or rather is fishy!

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Congress hears Lehman sought millions for execs

WASHINGTON - Days from becoming the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Lehman Brothers steered millions to departing executives even while pleading for a federal rescue, Congress was told Monday.

Top 10 powerful women in history

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:03:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More information about each one on site.

Clip Source: listverse.com

The pages of history are littered with the names of powerful men. But from time to time, there have been women who have shone out as being equally powerful as the men in their time - some of whom have even gone on to shape the future of the world as we know it. This is a list of ten of those incredibly powerful women.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

born: 1122?; died: 1204

Hatshepsut

born: 1508 BC?; died: 1458 BC

Maria Theresa of Austria

born: 1717; died: 1780

Empress Theodora

born: 500 AD?; died: 548 AD

Empress Wu Zetian

born: 625 AD; died: 705 AD

Isabella I of Castile

born: 1451; died: 1504

Elizabeth I of England

born: 1533; died: 1603

Empress Dowager Cixi

born: 1835; died: 1908

Catherine II of Russia

born: 1729; died: 1796

Queen Victoria

born: 1819; died: 1901

Tags: women, history, powerful

Barney Frank, "Impaled"

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:17:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Yes, Bill...Barney Frank did preside over the biggest bailout in U.S. history!

Clip Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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Last night on "The O'Reilly Factor," host Bill O'Reilly and Rep. Barney Frank had a heated discussion about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

FYI

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:31:31 GMT

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Clip Source: www.bordergatewayprotocol.net

just so you know:

•I attacked and took over 2 countries.

•I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury.

•I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not easy!).

•I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.

•I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market.

•In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did).

•After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history.

•I set the record for most campaign fund raising trips by any president in US history.

•In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.

•I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.

•I set the all-time record for most real estate foreclosures in a 12-month period.

EARTH 2008-- A WORLD OF SLAVES (Part 1 of 6)

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:26:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: History repeats except this is the final chapter of a plan of the New World Order..

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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EARTH 2008-- A WORLD OF SLAVES (Part 1 of 6)

Telling A 15 Billion Year Story In 3 1/2 Minutes

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:54:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ponderabout.com

in the video below, astronomer Carl Sagan, traces events

from the time of the Big Bang to the formation of Life

and he manages to do so, with his brand of poetry,

in only 3 1/2 minutes

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the above is an excerpt from Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,

first broadcast by in 1980, the 13-episode Cosmos was

American public television's most watched series

it remained so for a decade, and today is regarded

as one of the all time geat science documentaries

Tags: cosmology, carl sagan, big bang, history

Palin: "I'm a federalist...I believe states should have more say"

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:39:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Federalist. As in "federal" government.
Doubtless she is intelligent, but that Americans would consider electing a VP who's this mixed up about the foundations of American government is hard to believe.

Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

Couric Why, in your view, is Roe v. Wade a bad decision?

Sarah Palin: I think it should be a states' issue not a federal government-mandated, mandating yes or no on such an important issue. I'm, in that sense, a federalist, where I believe that states should have more say in the laws of their lands and individual areas.

Couric: What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?

Palin: Well, let's see. There's, of course in the great history of America there have been rulings, that's never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but …

Couric: Can you think of any?

Palin: Well, I could think of … any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level. Maybe I would take issue with.

Tags: palin, federalist

ACORN Is A Bad Seed

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:34:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."

WA 2007 Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.

Clip Source: www.rottenacorn.com

Recent Fraud

State Year Details

AR 1998

CO 2004

2005

FL 2004

MI 2004

MO 2007

2006

2003

NC 2004

NM 2005

2004

OH 2007

2004

MN 2004

PA 2008

2004

TX 2004

WA 2007

Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.

In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.

Tags: acorn, project vote, voter fraud, identity theft, convictions

The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:12:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: History that couldn't be, maybe.

Clip Source: www.ancientx.com

Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. Two types of spheres have been found: one is composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; the other is hollowed out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in which they where found is Precambrian - and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who made them and for what purpose is unknown.

The Dropa Stones

The Ica Stones

The Antikythera Mechanism

The Baghdad Battery

The Coso Artifact

Ancient Model Aircraft

Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica

Impossible Fossils

Out-of-Place Metal Objects

What are we to make of these finds? There are several possibilities:

Intelligent humans date back much, much further than we realize.

Other intelligent beings and civilizations existed on earth far beyond our recorded history.

Tags: ancient history

The Origin of the Red and White Barber's Pole

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:30:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Who knew they had such an interesting history.

Clip Source: listverse.com

The Barber’s pole symbolizes blood and bandages, as most barbers also performed the roles of surgeons and dentists in their towns. Bandages stained with blood would be washed and hung from a pole outside the barber’s shop - these would then twist in the wind to form the spiral pattern we are all familiar with today. Macabre but true.

Tags: medieval, middle ages, barbers, origins

Reforms Put in Place After the Great Depression...Then Dismantled

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:03:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

When Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt took office, the nation was in the midst of a banking meltdown. FDR and his advisors zeroed in on financial speculation. Many of the hallmarks of the New Deal were designed specifically to curb speculation, regulate the financial sector, and protect ordinary Americans from becoming collateral damage of Wall Street's predators. The Glass-Steagall Act (1933) separated commercial from investment banking and created the FDIC to insure small savings. The idea was to create a firewall between the small savings of individuals and the creative minds on Wall Street, and instill confidence in the banks holding the nation's savings. The Truth in Securities Act (1933) and the creation of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1934) aimed to prevent the scandals, lies, and pyramid schemes that had brought the stock market crashing down in 1929.

part of a broader package that included substantial relief for suffering Americans and vast public investment.

Tags: history, regulation, deregulation, crash

Attention! Deficits Disorder

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:29:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The temporary tax measures in place during the war were repealed and, by the end of the 19th century, the debt had been reduced to $1.2 billion, less than half of its 1865 level.

Given the vast expansion of U.S. territory and the wars the country fought to create and then hold together the United States, this does not seem a large debt level. In fact, in its first 110 years of history, the United States had shown its ability to fund expansion while reducing debt over time. And this was accomplished without an income tax. In fact, in 1869 and again in 1895, the Supreme Court ruled federal income taxes unconstitutional.

The story was quite different in the 20th century. By the end of World War I, the national debt had risen to $26 billion. Even though the debt level had been reduced over the next decade, the Great Depression caused further deficit spending and FDR's New Deal tripled debt levels up to $72 billion.
In other words, the national debt is growing exponentially.

Clip Source: www.lewrockwell.com

In Madison's term of office, the ill-fated War of 1812 ran the national debt up to $127 million by 1816. Monroe and John Quincy Adams were both able to reduce the debt during their terms of office and by 1829 the debt had fallen to $58 million. And then, during Andrew Jackson's presidency, the national debt was entirely paid off. For the first time in its history (and the last) the United States had no national debt.

Over the next decade, the country ran up $46 million in new debt and by 1848 it rose to $63 million. However, in all fairness, one advantage of this was that the Mexican War resulted in U.S. expansion all the way to the Pacific and the acquisition of the entire southwest and California. Under the Pierce administration, the debt was paid down to $28 million; but it never got that low again.

The Civil War exploded the national debt up to $2.8 billion, or 100 times higher than in had been in 1857. Per capita debt in 1860 was $2 per capita; at the end of 1865, it was $75.

Tags: national debt levels, deficit spending, federal income tax

The history of Internet in just some seconds!

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:05:51 GMT

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Clip Source: crave.cnet.co.uk

The 50 most significant moments of Internet history

Clip Source: crave.cnet.co.uk

Grassroots campaign to stop the bailout

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:26:46 GMT

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Clip Source: globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com

There should be no stock option grants or pay raises and there should be pay caps until every dime of taxpayer money is paid back.

Over 190 top economists in the country have slammed this bailout on grounds of fairness, ambiguity, and long term effects.

It is a disgrace that no professional economist was consulted by Congress or invited to present his/her views at the Congressional hearings on the Treasury rescue plan.

Doing nothing is far better than wasting $350-700 billion in a Wall Street Bailout Boondoggle that puts an already stressed taxpayer in further jeopardy.

Be a part of history!

A grass roots campaign like this has never killed a major bill. You can help do it.
Flood them with calls, emails, and faxes.
Just Do It!

Click Here For Congresional Phone And Fax Numbers

Senate Fax List

We can STILL make a difference

Tags: finance, bail out, politics

The Whitehouse Coup of 1933

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:47:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.bbc.co.uk

The Whitehouse Coup

The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.

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Tags: economy, politics, history